by
Michael Petracca, University of California at Santa Barbara
Madeleine Sorapure, University of California at Santa Barbara

Welcome to the online study guide to accompany Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture, Fourth Edition.

To enter this site, please choose a chapter from the "Jump to" menu in the navigation bar above.

Features of this site include:

Features of this site include:
• Chapter learning objectives that help students organize key concepts.
• Before and After Reading exercises for each essay in the text that encourage active reading and synthesis of ideas.
• Four kinds of follow-up activities for each chapter: Interactive Sites, Internet Activities, Visual Analysis, and Research Project all offer students the opportunity to expand on what they have learned in the text.
• Dynamic web links and research for each chapter and most individual authors that provide a valuable source of supplemental information.
• Web Destinations that encourage further research and study of popular culture
• Communication tools such as message boards to facilitate online collaboration and communication.
• Built-in routing that gives students the ability to forward essay responses to their instructors.
• eThemes of the Times collection for English
• Research Navigator™, which provides extensive help on the research process and three exclusive databases full of relevant and reliable source material including EBSCO's ContentSelect Academic Journal Database, The New York Times Search by Subject Archive, and Best of the Web Link Library. Click here to view a .pdf walk-through of Research Navigator™ (Acrobat Reader™ required. Click here or on the image below to download this application).

Visit this site when you want to gain a richer perspective and a deeper understanding of the concepts and issues discussed in Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture, Fourth Edition.

Special thanks to our web author:
Suzanne Drapeau
Special Lecturer
Oakland University